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The second content video introduces data from the NHTSA\'s 1998 San Diego field

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Question

The second content video introduces data from the NHTSA's 1998 San Diego field sobriety test validation study, issued by the agency as the report "Validation of the Standardized Field Sobriety Test Battery at BACs Below 0.10 Percent, " by Drs. Jack Sutter and Marceline Burns. Recall, twenty-nine participants were legally sober according the BACs, while 267 had BACs greater than or equal to 0.04 and were, hence, legally drunk. Suppose you changed your rule to require that the Total FST score required to say you were drunk was 8 or above instead of 4 or above. What will happen to your false negative rate? You don't need to do any computations here to reason this out. It increases It decreases It stays the same Can't predict what will happen.

Explanation / Answer

what will happen to false negitve rate?

The correct option is A

It decreases

EXPLANANTION:

false positive tests are more probable than true positive tests, occurring when the overall population has a low incidence of a condition and the incidence rate is lower than the false positive rate. The probability of a positive test result is determined not only by the accuracy of the test but by the characteristics of the sampled population